I liked Fuguita when I tried it a year ago. It's very light on resources, it's stable and live boots a pure version of OpenBSD.
I give it a 10/10 for that. But from what I could tell, they claim that it's easy to remaster iso's and install software, but I could never find any documentation for it and could never figure out how to do it.
It's cool in that it boots like a basic DOS, I love that it's live and can be run entirely on CD, but what exactly can I do with it but stare at the desktop? I can't get online with it since there is no browser installed.
So, I'm not sure how useful it is to me as an operating system (I can do far more with a Freedos bootable CD, cause I actually have programs for it to run on), but nonetheless, I do "like" it and I do appreciate the effort put into it.
Having become more than a little bit disenchanted by the direction being taken by many Linux-based distros, especially Debian-based ones that I have used for years, I thought I would take a look at BSD.
Although BSD is generally for servers, there are some desktop gems worth looking at, and FuguIta is definitely one, as is NomadBSD.
Having tried OpenBSD, and found it almost unusable, I am amazed how someone has come up with a live, installable, sort-of desktop version, that is better than the original.
Although I am to attempt installing it to a hard-drive, I am having a lot of fun running from a live USB pendrive (use the img.gz download).
FuguIta is like using a very intuitive version of DOS, that helps and informs you at every stage of setup. There is also a very good setup guide on their website.
I am looking forward to a steep relearning curve, on a 'proper' UNIX-type system.
A great live CD that is pretty fast and responsive, being based on BSD this is very configurable, stable and doesn’t have bloatware, only packages you’ll need and you can install a lot more easily too. I wish for lesser-known operating systems on distrowatch, whether BSD, Linux, etc. that the features would be updated and have their version numbers for the packages included, that’ll help a lot of people find out more about these lesser-known ones and to be able to have a more fair chance to be tried out. Overall, I recommend Fugulta.
I liked Fuguita when I tried it a year ago. It's very light on resources, it's stable and live boots a pure version of OpenBSD.
I give it a 10/10 for that. But from what I could tell, they claim that it's easy to remaster iso's and install software, but I could never find any documentation for it and could never figure out how to do it.
It's cool in that it boots like a basic DOS, I love that it's live and can be run entirely on CD, but what exactly can I do with it but stare at the desktop? I can't get online with it since there is no browser installed.
So, I'm not sure how useful it is to me as an operating system (I can do far more with a Freedos bootable CD, cause I actually have programs for it to run on), but nonetheless, I do "like" it and I do appreciate the effort put into it.
Having become more than a little bit disenchanted by the direction being taken by many Linux-based distros, especially Debian-based ones that I have used for years, I thought I would take a look at BSD.
Although BSD is generally for servers, there are some desktop gems worth looking at, and FuguIta is definitely one, as is NomadBSD.
Having tried OpenBSD, and found it almost unusable, I am amazed how someone has come up with a live, installable, sort-of desktop version, that is better than the original.
Although I am to attempt installing it to a hard-drive, I am having a lot of fun running from a live USB pendrive (use the img.gz download).
FuguIta is like using a very intuitive version of DOS, that helps and informs you at every stage of setup. There is also a very good setup guide on their website.
I am looking forward to a steep relearning curve, on a 'proper' UNIX-type system.
A great live CD that is pretty fast and responsive, being based on BSD this is very configurable, stable and doesn’t have bloatware, only packages you’ll need and you can install a lot more easily too. I wish for lesser-known operating systems on distrowatch, whether BSD, Linux, etc. that the features would be updated and have their version numbers for the packages included, that’ll help a lot of people find out more about these lesser-known ones and to be able to have a more fair chance to be tried out. Overall, I recommend Fugulta.
Stable, fast, easy to use. Fugulta performs better, works better and has more customization, programs and better stability than OpenBSD does.
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